My Facetruck thread.

[special-K]

I'm making the most of their time here in MD. When Grant is finished school in April, where they go depends on where he finds a job. Last week I thought about them, how it had been a while since we got together. I sent her a text, "I miss you guys", and that's all it took. They were up Sunday morning for the day. She's a great mom. He's a learner, too. Soaks it up like bread and gravy.

I meant to say about my hay wagon rides when I was young. They made me pay for the ride by taking and stacking the bales as the baler spit them out. Every time I had a good seat made the baler kept spitting bales and I'd have to keep on stacking! Looking back on it, I don't think the idea was ever for me to sit. Am I right?

[davischevy]

I have a theory that once you have shown your willing to work, you are doomed.

I had a tightwad uncle down the road that couldn't get anybody to help him haul hay one year. Imminent rain was in the forecast so my dad and I agreed to help.


We went down there and found out why he couldn't get help. His bales were so heavy my gonads were complaining. I loaded one load, and told my dad screw this, we are working for free, he can load his own bales, and we found something else to do real quick.

[Ol Blue K20]

Kill them and hang them from the fence.....

[special-K]

Here, take two.

[special-K]

Too much!

[special-K]

Been having a good time working a couple days with my two sons, Jason and Sam. It hasn't happened often, but when all three of us get together to work it's the best feeling for me as a dad. My older son does hardwood flooring and this is his job. Actually a side job because he is working for someone else doing another type of work these days. So he has no crew and that's how we all came together. The job involves running the entire main floor, including kitchen (gutted) and fingering in to old flooring in family room into hallway then foyer. Not just straight up slam it down flooring. I wasn't too wild about the thought of running hardwood but the good outweighs the bad.

Driving home, all in our own vehicles on the same road, we had a red light where the road goes from 2 to 1 lane beyond the light. I take the right lane, roll past Jason with a grin and signalling I'm going to run Sam. Sam has a Toyota X-Runner he has a nice tune on and I'm in my '95 K2500 Suburban. I sit back with my bumper at the back of his door... a little tactic I use when I want to beat someone out. Light turns green and I lunge out ahead, works every time. He is much faster and came right around me with ease, of course I let up too . Didn't want to pinch us together at the merge, you know. I just wanted to mess with Sam.

So on up the road at the crossroads closest to my place, Jason comes rolling by on my right and stops next to Sam in the right turn lane (regular cab ZR2) in an obvious challenge. I got a real kick when the light turned green and both my boys pull out hard side by side in front of me. Jason is tossing up dust off the hard shoulder and drops in behind Sam. Might seem irresponsible for some, but it was a high point for me all the same. Not a word spoken between us, just something we could do and the other knew what was up... all in fun.

[davischevy]

It don't sound nearly as dangerous as driving under the influence or texting and driving.

Actually sounds like something we would do here.

My dad was 85 when he quit driving and he still loved a little race off the light so you have at least 20 years left Tim.

[davischevy]

A little old lady was running up and down the halls in a nursing home.
As she walked, she would flip up the hem of her nightgown and say 'Supersex'
She walked up to an elderly man in a wheelchair...
Flipping her gown at him, she said, 'Supersex...'
He sat silently for a moment or two and finally answered
'I'll take the soup.'

[Steeveedee]

Heh, I like to get a hole shot on those ricers with the 4 inch fart can on the back. I'll only beat them across the intersection in that big truck, but they sure get steamed.

[special-K]

I'd prefer the soup, too! No drinking, just hard work among family, feelin' good on a nice day, and WTF, screw-it, let's GO!!

Yeah Stevie, I like to taunt even when I ain't gawt nuthin'. That little Tacoma has about 325hp currently, stock they are 250hp. Those X-Runners are a nice little sport truck, 6spd, posi, lowered, Bilsteins, 18" alloys. He's got the Toyo proxies on a set of factory wheels he had powder coated gloss black. The exhaust is some mandrel bent bigger pipe deal some guy puts out on a low production level, we opened up the air intake significantly, and my buddy played with his computer. He's done some things to the suspension, too. He's always messing with it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=red+...ih=448&dpr=1.4

Jason, my older son, never was much for wrenchin', although he does fix his own stuff. That ZR2 he has came with, maybe, 8" wide Atlas wheels (if you know what those are) with RWD offset. They stuck out a mile. I found him a nice set of original S10 wheels that look like Centerlines. Much better now.

[Steeveedee]

I envy you guys that don't have a biennial SMOG inspection. You get away with all kinds of stuff on models newer than '76. I'd like to put a newer KIA Soul turbo-charged four cylinder in my KIA Forte. That would be a real kick in the ass! It would be possible, but would cost more than the car, by the time it was done (since I can't do it), and it would never get past the SMOG test. We used to be able to get away with that kind of stuff 40 years ago, but it's just a pipe dream, these days.

[davischevy]

I'm sure our day is coming Steve, it's just a matter of time.

[special-K]

Yep, we can look to CA for what will come. Maryland likes new regulations, too. It's the suburb counties of Washington, DC. They come up with new attempts at regulating common sense all the time. Next thing it's statewide. But so far, as long as it passes the emissions test (bi-annual) we have freedom to tamper. I think it's a sniffer test.

My friend is doing a turbo on his S10 4-banger. He is also doing his version of a Cyclone on a later S10... all wheel drive/LS power. He's the Grand National guy, tweaks them out to the max. I might as well be in CA. I'm not much on mssing with anything newer than what they allow anyway.

[davischevy]

My daughter got married today at an interesting place. In a cave. Beckham Creek Cave. They rented the place for the weekend. It was my first visit, and it's quite a place. http://beckhamcave.com/

[Boog]

Well that's different. I could see me falling asleep on top of a rock but not under it..: Does water seep through the rock in there? It looks like puddles in several areas.

[davischevy]

There are several places that drip from the ceiling. I couldn't get my wife to stay the night.

[Boog]

I can see it's quite pricey. Is this something new up that way? I've not heard of it. Near Jasper?

[special-K]

I've seen that place before but didn't know where it was. Pretty neat place. My roof is getting bad in some places. I just replaced one section on Friday. It had begun to leak. Did I just bring the value of my home down?

[Ol Blue K20]

That is different, looks like a neat place to visit. I don't think owning it is in my future though. Lol

[davischevy]

Roof leaks are in Tim.

I noticed the HVAC system runs all the time. I had heard years ago they had significant humidity problems. The cave has a big spring that runs under the floor.

In the back you can still explore the old cave. It has a water purification system back there.

[Boog]

Hmm. I have skinned knuckles but I'm no cave man.

[special-K]

I'd need a mortgage at that price and I don't want no more o' that in my future! I guess I'll have to find my own cave to sleep in. If I was a bear I'd hire a good lawyer and claim my right to the place as ancestral habitat.

I had my buddy Gus (grandson) over on Sunday. I lost my camera, so no pictures, but we set up a Hot Wheels triple track out back. Two were side by side to start out, then went different ways. The one was the long long run that sent a car that made it all the way off a terrace wall almost to the house... about 30'. The other took a sharp curve to what he called the car wash. Off another chair was the third. That one crossed paths with the long run, then curved back over into other curves. I... er he really enjoyed it. Ok, we both did. He wanted to leave it set up, but we'll do it better next time. I have a lot of track!

[davischevy]

At the wedding in the cave Saturday, my grandsons, 5 and 6, had a launcher for Matchbox cars. They set up plastic wine glasses (is there such a thing?) like bowling pins and played bowling, launching the car into the pins.

We had fun too.

[davischevy]

'It's just too hot to wear clothes today,' Jack says as
he stepped out of the shower..'Honey, what do you
think the neighbors would think if I mowed the lawn
like this?'
'Probably that I married you for your money,' she replied.

[special-K]

Plastic wine glasses are for drinking wine that comes in plastic bottles. Wait, who needs a glass for that? Oh yeah, formal occasion.

Sounds fun. The car wash was one of those igniter things with no batteries. He's a smart kid. Came up with car wash from the big spongy wheels the cars pass through. Time to buy some D cells. There are two of those and it's going to be an inside thing before long